The purpose of this blog is to provide a holding, attuned, and provocative space for the mysteries of your heart to unfold. All of you is welcome here, in all of your glory - the painful, the joyous, the heartbroken, and the weary. The invitation is to see your entire life as an expression of high-voltage, creative guidance, and for you to offer yourself to the endless and infinite dimension of love that is emerging within and around you right now.

Monday, July 18, 2016

Sanctuary for the visitors

When you find yourself triggered. When your emotional
world is on fire and you are hooked into shame, blame, and rage. When you
notice you are practicing self-aggression, spiraling into addictive behavior,
or complaining about your life… slow way down. Return into the aliveness of
your body and listen. For your need yourself now more than ever.

Something is attempting to break through, out of the
murky darkness and into conscious awareness. Some unmet feeling, some abandoned aspect
of yourself, some underlying state of vulnerability. What is it? What is
knocking on the door of your heart, longing to be reorganized and integrated
back into the wholeness?

As a little one, it was intelligent to split off from
overwhelming experience and aspects of yourself that you could not metabolize
at the time. But these pieces are looking for you. They come as emissaries of
revelation and carriers of an untamed intelligence and creativity. As
ambassadors of the somatic world, they serve as gatekeepers of portals into
aliveness, connection, and intimacy with all things.

Whether you choose to provide a home for these ones – or
you do not – they will never relinquish their search, and will continue to
appear as your friends, your children, your emotions, your lovers, and your
life circumstances. They will even come in disguise as the mountains, the
ocean, the blue, and the purple, to remind you of something you may have
forgotten.

Look carefully as your unlived life is always appearing
before you. Provide sanctuary for these visitors and their wisdom will be
revealed.

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About Me

I am a psychotherapist, author, and teacher, working with individuals and groups worldwide. My latest book, The Path is Everywhere, will be available in June 2017. To learn more about me and my work, please visit my website.

I have a PhD in psychology, where my research interests included
contemporary psychodynamic/ relational theory as well as mindfulness-based, contemplative approaches to psychological healing and spiritual transformation. I have long been interested in the dialogue
between Western, developmental and meditative methods of
inquiry and practice.

I worked in the publishing field for over 24 years, most recently Director of Professional Studies for Sounds True, where I organized online training for mental health professionals seeking to deepen their practice in areas such as attachment, trauma, neuroscience, and mindfulness.